You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.